Raed Salah

Raed Salah (1958-) was the leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, an organization that sought to extend sharia law to Israel and harass Jews on Temple Mount.

Biography
Raed Salah was born in 1958 in Umm al-Fahm, Israel to a family of Sunni Muslim Arabs. A former poet, he had eight children, and in 1989 he was elected as Mayor of Umm al-Fahm and again in 1993 and 1997. Later, he became the leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel. Salah was known for his anti-Semitic views, saying that the Jews used children's blood to bake bread. On 7 November 2014, he stated that Jerusalem would be the capital of the worldwide caliphate, expressing his Islamist views. On 17 November 2015 he was arrested by the Israeli government and his branch closed down, as he was alleged to have funded the Hamas terrorist organization, made contact with agents from Iran, and was inciting religious violence.